Good to see justice prevail, even if it does not seem to happen as much as we might like.

A couple from a community near Fredericton has been implicated in a bogus fuel-saving scheme.

The Competition Bureau investigated Cory and Tracey Grattan of Douglas. The bureau examined their marketing practices and found false and misleading information about a fuel-saving device over the internet.

The Competition Bureau acted on information it received from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Bureau spokesman Dermot Jardine says officers searched the Grattan premises and found they had been sending out links to a website for a bogus product called Fuel Saver Pro.

Jardine says claims were made that the product could save up to 40 per cent in fuel consumption in cars, trucks and boats. “But they did not have any testing to support those claims and in fact the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. did testing on it and found they didn’t do anything,” he says. [Read the rest]